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Re: [sheflug] hdd cloning

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From: Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:55:08 +0100
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On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 15:41 +0100, Nigel Horne wrote:
> David Willington wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend any hdd cloning software? It's not something I've
> > done before but have been asked if I can recommend something. I'm having
> > a look at Ghost for Linux (http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/) at the
> > moment
> 
> dd(1)

dd doesn't really provide any of the features of Ghost; it just copies
(parts of) files.

http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page is very good for munging around with
disk images. 

http://www.mondorescue.org/ is without parallel in the W32 world, IMO,
and would be the best bet in this situation for my money.

Cheers,

Alex.

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